Shanghai Cofco Cultural & Health Center / Steven Holl Architects

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Text description provided by the architects. Designed in 2016, the Shanghai Cofco Cultural and Health Center aims at being a social condenser, fostering community among the residents of the surrounding new housing blocks with public space and park along an existing canal. While the adjacent housing blocks are repetitive, here the architecture is of spatial energy and openness, inviting the whole community in for recreational and cultural programs.

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Shaping a central public space, the Health Center and Cultural Center are exoskeletal concrete construction. Subtractive cuts in the concrete structure carry on the space shaping architectural language

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Shanghai Cofco Cultural & Health Center / Steven Holl Architects - Interior Photography, Glass
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The landscape and two new public buildings are merged by the concept of “clocks and clouds.” The landscape is organized in large, clocklike circles forming a central public space, and the buildings are cloud-like in their porosity and openness. The Cultural Center hovers over a transparent glass base that exposes a café and game and recreation rooms. A curved ramp, climbing gently up to the second floor, creates a continuous experience of overlooking.

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The Health Center is also shaped by the curves of the landscape. Both buildings have green sedum roofs, which merge them further with the landscape when seen from the surrounding apartment buildings. 

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Cite: "Shanghai Cofco Cultural & Health Center / Steven Holl Architects" 13 Oct 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/970071/shanghai-cofco-cultural-and-health-center-steven-holl-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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